1. This weekend, I have tickets to the Utah Symphony for the first time in a couple of years. (I used to be there nearly every week back in the days of student tickets.) I hear good things about the orchestra under the new music director.

2. I also have Skyler’s first birthday party to attend on Saturday afternoon. I bought him a toy piano, since aunties get to force their interests on their nephews.

Way back before the extravaganza that is April (Regular Easter! Greek Easter! Mom’s birthday! Camping! And Skyler’s birthday coming up!), I decided on my next project. I even got the pattern ready and did a quick test sew of the body to check the fit before I cut into my fancy Liberty fabric.

Nothing has happened since then, though. But something could happen Saturday morning before Skyler’s party. I’ll let you know.

1. This Married to the Sea post has inspired a catchphrase between me and my friend: “Don’t be the lefterly cow”.(click image to enlarge)2. And the last line of this entry in the “Shit Certain Social Groups Say” video meme has become my new catchphrase:

This one was another request (which makes me so happy): How can you tell when to use drink, drank, or drunk? Or sink, sank, or sunk?

Drink and sink are pretty easy, since they’re in the present tense. (I’m pretty sure nobody gets confused about saying “Drink up!”) But drank and drunk and sank and sunk are both past tense verbs, so how can you tell which one to use?

Drank and sank are simple past tense verbs: “The ship sank.” “I drank too much last night.” But drunk and sunk are a past participle, so they need a helping verb–no, don’t tune out yet, that just means drunk and sunk always appear with a form of “have”: “They have drunk my potion!” “The submarine has been sunk by the spies.”

So here’s my trick: Drunk and sunk have a U in them. Have has a V in it. U and V come right next to each other in the alphabet. S0 use that trick to remember that drunk and sunk should always appear with have.

I made my mom a scarf for her birthday. She’s really hard to buy for and making her something requires that she like it (it’s a Mom Law), so it seemed like a good idea. Besides, accessories are a pretty flexible gift.I used two-thirds of the Liberty prints from last week and followed this tutorial, just making the square a little smaller. There was a lot of hand sewing to finish but it went pretty quickly.